Quick, when did movies start to make money? You've...  ...r thought about it, but the earliest experimental films were hard to monetize. They were an amazing techn...  ...lor and sound. The breakthrough came with an 1894 Edison kinetograph film of a boxing match between James &...

[https://youtu.be/SwIcRSvQ_TY] (YouTube link)We ge...  ...with sound actually dates from 1895, when a short film called "Dickson Experimental Sound Film " was made. The image is that of Edison engineer W. K. L. Dickson playing a violin. The s...  ...s recorded on a wax cylin...